Articles and essays about community, culture, wildlife conservation, food sovereignty, wildfire ecology, and climate change.

  • Grey Ghosts in the Smoke: How does a wildfire crisis threaten an already fragile species?

    The Narwhal

  • Staffed lookout towers aren’t relics from the past – they’re key to fighting today’s wildfires

    Globe and Mail

  • The King of Wapusk: Unpacking the Mystery of Grizzly Bears in the Hudson Bay Lowlands

    Canadian Geographic

  • Alberta is Burning: What are we going to do about it?

    Alberta Views

  • Meet The Métis Woman Using Fire To Fight Fire

    Chatelaine

  • Bats of the Midnight Sun: Solving the Mystery of Myotis Lucifugus in Alaska

    Hakai Magazine

  • Opinion: Ending Our Silence Around Suicide

    The Globe and Mail

  • A sub-arctic research center in Churchill, Manitoba tackles food insecurity

    Modern Farmer

  • As the world’s ‘polar bear capital’ waits for ice, bears are increasingly drawn into the streets

    The Narwhal

  • Doris Anderson Awards 2023: Devyn Gale, braving the front lines of Canada’s worst wildfire season

    Chatelaine

  • Up in Smoke: Tree planting in the face of Canada's Climate Emergency

    Corporate Knights

  • ‘Treated like machines’: wildfire fighters describe a mental health crisis on the frontlines

    The Narwhal

  • In Alberta's Rocky Mountains, an Australian-owned Coal Mine is Quietly Forging Ahead

    The Narwhal

  • ‘We are a skeleton crew out here’: UCP cuts led to disastrous Alberta wildfire situation

    The Narwhal

  • Alberta had one of the best wildfire programs in the world. Budget cuts have left the province at risk

    The Globe and Mail

  • From the fire tower: A lookout’s view of the Alberta wilderness

    CBC Radio

  • Dispatches from the Fire Tower: Scanning for smoke in the midst of bears and bugs

    Calgary Herald

    Finalist for the Alberta Magazine Awards in the Alberta Story category

  • Call of the Wild – Meet Five Women Working to Protect Wild Bears

    Chatelaine

  • Herd Memory

    Alberta Views Magazine

    Winner of the Jon Whyte Memorial Essay Award

    Winner of the National Magazine Award in the Personal Journalism category

  • Life in Upheaval: Alberta Writers on COVID-19

    Alberta Views Magazine

  • A Pastoral Meditation on Time

    Culturally Modified

  • A Labour of Love

    Calgary Herald

  • For the Love of Wild Bees

    Alberta Wildfire

  • Farming as Resistance

    Yes! Magazine

  • How Cuba's Women Farmers Kept Everyone Fed

    Yes! Magazine

  • Local Food as Medicine

    Hakai Magazine

  • Women Who Feed the World

    The Walrus

  • The Future of Farming is Female

    The Globe and Mail

  • Women Who Feed the Islands

    Haida Gwaii Observer

  • The Mystery of Ursus Arctos - Searching for Grizzlies in Alberta's Boreal

    Alberta Views

  • Farmworkers Push Back Against Machismo and Abuse in California's Wine Country

    Yes! Magazine

  • The Ugandan Dictator and the Louisiana Crayfish

    Narratively

  • Managing Hurricane Sandy - Cuban Women Critical to Regrowing Communities

    Briarpatch Magazine

  • Women Farming in the City

    GUTS Canadian Feminist Magazine

  • Urban Farms - The New Frontier for Female Farmers

    Modern Farmer

  • Palming Off the Problem

    Verge Magazine

  • Trauma is Like a Snakebite

    Vela Magazine

  • Indigenous Farmers Confront Canada's Goldcorp

    Briarpatch Magazine

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